Orgoglio Funesto: dramma in tre atti del Prof. Angelo Ciccarelli; Qualcuno Guastò La Festa: dramma in un atto di Louis Marsolleau [Fatal Pride: drama in three acts of Prof. Angelo Ciccarelli; Someone Spoiled the Holiday, drama in one act of Louis Marsolleau]. Brooklyn: Libreria del Proletario/ Tip. International Press of Brooklyn, 1905.

Orgoglio Funesto: dramma in tre atti del Prof. Angelo Ciccarelli; Qualcuno Guastò La Festa: dramma in un atto di Louis Marsolleau [Fatal Pride: drama in three acts of Prof. Angelo Ciccarelli; Someone Spoiled the Holiday, drama in one act of Louis Marsolleau]. Brooklyn: Libreria del Proletario/ Tip. International Press of Brooklyn, 1905.

From the cover, it appears that what unites these two different plays (by different playwrights) is that they both are of the "teatro sociale" [social theater].

There is nothing in Flamma, Schiavo or Durante about Professor Ciccarelli or his play.

Louis Marsolleau (b. France 1864- d. France 1935) was a French poet, playwright and novelist, well represented in French theatre in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the Comédie-Française, Théâtre Antoine, and Théâtre de l'Odéon.

This particular play, in its French original Mais quelqu'un troubla la fête (1900), was judged anarchist because it took on the management class, and thus was censured. The play was mounted every year on May Day in the U.S. and in Europe by worker cooperatives at the beginning of the 1900s in celebration of worker solidarity.

The publisher (or perhaps bookstore distributor) is listed on the cover as Libreria del Proletario [Bookstore of Il Proletario], at 158 Carroll Street in Brooklyn, but the title page of the first play lists only the printer, International Press of Brooklyn, at the same address. Both cover and title page are reproduced here, as is the rear cover advertisting the socialist Il Proletario.

Angelo Ciccarelli

Louis Marsoleau

Libreria del Proletario/ Tip. International Press of Brooklyn

1905

20 x 14cm; 107 p.

Italian